Browse Items (8 total)
Sort by:
Launceston Post Office exterior, Launceston, Tasmania
The Launceston Post Office is in the centre of the Tasmanian city of Launceston, and is one of four Heritage Property Showcase buildings of Australia Post for 2012. It was designed by architect William W. Eldridge (1850-1933) in 1885 with some…
Launceston Post Office entrance, Launceston, Tasmania
The Launceston Post Office is in the centre of the Tasmanian city of Launceston, and is one of four Heritage Property Showcase buildings of Australia Post for 2012. It was designed by architect William W. Eldridge (1850-1933) in 1885 with some…
‘Bards of the Backblocks: Knights of Chance’, The Bulletin, 26 May 1900.
To describe everyday life in colonial Australia as entirely rural-based in 1900 would be misleading, for the country’s major urban centres, particularly Sydney and Melbourne, housed much of the population and fuelled its commercial vitality…
‘Gratuitous Pugnacity’, The Bulletin, 3 March 1888.
Cartoonist Phil May here encapsulates the main problems of a premature pitch by NSW for Australian Federation. The doughty knight (Sir Henry) is ready to do battle with ‘all and sundry,’ for he needs to pay off (or perhaps unload the…
Salvation Army Headquarters in Perth
A photograph of the former Salvation Army headquarters building in Pier Street in the Perth CBD. The Flemish bond brick and stucco building in Federation Free style was built in 1899, eight years after the Salvation Army began to operate in the…
Salvation Army Headquarters, Perth
A photograph of the former Salvation Army headquarters building in Pier Street in the Perth CBD. The Flemish bond brick and stucco building in Federation Free style was built in 1899, eight years after the Salvation Army began to operate in the…
Establishing the Commonwealth Culture: A Distinctly Australian Event
This article written by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 2010 displays a collection of primary source materials pertaining to the Australian Federation Parade in Sydney in 1901. Of particular interest are the groups of people present…